Yellowstone National Park ~ America's Natural Treasure

After spending three days in Yellowstone National Park, I can tell you that it is one of America's greatest natural treasures.  The landscape changes so much and the wildlife you see is amazing.  We didn't see all of it's 2.2 million acres, but we covered a lot of it.

Here are a few photos of our trip into America's National Treasure:

This was our view from our spot at the Fireside Resort, overlooking Lake Hebgen in Jackson Hole, WY.  

 The Grand Prismatic Spring.  Its colors match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.  It's ten stories deep and a football field across and the water that boils up from it is 160 degrees.

We saw some bison, though not large herds.  

This bison disguised himself to try to get onto the bus.  We figured it out, and sent him packing.

We also saw a small herd of caribou, bald eagle, elk and a bear on the way in, as we reported in an earlier post.  

Oddly enough, the only other bear we saw was a panda bear, of all bears!  Dylan was just filming the countryside as we drove through Yellowstone, when he saw this panda cavorting on the grass.

Some of the coolest park rangers work at Yellowstone!

Mammoth Hot Springs is very cool.  It is a large complex of hot springs on a hill of travertine.  The terraces are made of crystallized calcium carbonate, which gives them a very surreal look to them.

We could have happily spent a week or more at Yellowstone.  It was some of the most beautiful country we have ever seen.  Now, we are in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which is also very scenic.  More to tell later...